Hi everybody,

my current project is a point&click adventure.

My problem is that sporadically I get an "Error E1301: Can't open file" when changing the room (loading new level).

It's not everytime and when the error occurs it's everytime another model that can't be loaded. When changing several times between two rooms, sometimes everything works fine and sometimes I get the error. It's about 50% / 50% ...

After loading the level I wait 2 frames ... do I need some frames more ?!?

Any ideas ?!?

Regards,
Pegamode.

Without posting the whole code here, it's hard to tell where there's the error, it would be better if you copy your project(for safety) and then remove all code that's unrelated to the problem, until your code is that small with the problem, to post it or to find the error yourself....

I myself had sometimes errors i wasn't able to find a solution for, so i tried to make a small project with minimized code but still with the error to upload to the forum and often i was able to find the problem because of this!

cheers

Hmm ... as it is such a lot of code it's impossible to post it here.

I hoped that somebody had the same error, too, and found a solution.

If it is not a problem of the level_load command itself it might be a problem with a function still running in background ... but "Can't open file" would be strange in that manner.

If you can isolate the function/s that the error occurs in,
try adding the following line/s defore the ent_create (or whatever loads the file)
then open the "acklog.txt" file in your *.c folder and look at the last few lines.
It may be the entity names are being mangled by the game_load function.
If so, we can look into it from there.

Also, if you have isolated which functions the failure is happening in,
try posting a hunk of code from just that function, if you cant do the whole function...

The problem is that the models that sometimes can't be loaded are set in WED.
So the error is thrown by the level_load command.

When trying it last time I could change between my two rooms about 20 times without any error, but on the 21st try the error occured.

After changing again everything was alright again ... but a few changes later another model couldn't be loaded.

Hmmmm.
Educated guess, but try setting freeze_mode before loading
and/or put a wait(1); before the level_load.

Can you post the code relating to the level_load? Just the function its in.

Thanks for the hint with freeze mode. I'll try that.

Here's the code that's currently in use:

function load_new_room (STRING* lName,STRING* entPosName) {
my = NULL; // make this action a global function
levelLoaded = 0;
scan_active = 0;
wait(2); // wait for some actions to stop
mouse_mode = 0;
set_commandLine_invisible();
if (entPosName != NULL) { // only change room if player walked through door, but not when changing player
if (current_player == c_player1.entity) {
c_player1.isInRoom = lName;
} else if (current_player == c_player2.entity) {
c_player2.isInRoom = lName;
} else if (current_player == c_player3.entity) {
c_player3.isInRoom = lName;
}
}
max_cams = 0;
level_wmb = lName;
level_load(lName);
wait(2);
place_inroom_characters();
me = ent_for_name (current_player_name);
player = me;
current_player = me;

if (entPosName != NULL) {
you = ent_for_name (entPosName);
}
if (me != NULL) {
if (current_player == c_player1.entity) {
inventory = (Bag*)getFromGSHashmap(_chr("inventory1"));
if (you != NULL) {
vec_set(c_player1->entity.x,you.x);
c_player1->entity.pan = you.pan;
}
if(c_player2.isInCurrentRoom == 1) {
set(c_player2.entity,PASSABLE);
}
if(c_player3.isInCurrentRoom == 1) {
set(c_player3.entity,PASSABLE);
}
} else if (current_player == c_player2.entity) {
inventory = (Bag*)getFromGSHashmap(_chr("inventory2"));
if(you != NULL) {
vec_set(c_player2->entity.x,you.x);
c_player2->entity.pan = you.pan;
}
if(c_player1.isInCurrentRoom == 1) {
set(c_player1.entity,PASSABLE);
}
if(c_player3.isInCurrentRoom == 1) {
set(c_player3.entity,PASSABLE);
}
} else if (current_player == c_player3.entity) {
inventory = (Bag*)getFromGSHashmap(_chr("inventory3"));
if(you != NULL) {
vec_set(c_player3->entity.x,you.x);
c_player3->entity.pan = you.pan;
}
if(c_player1.isInCurrentRoom == 1) {
set(c_player1.entity,PASSABLE);
}
if(c_player2.isInCurrentRoom == 1) {
set(c_player2.entity,PASSABLE);
}
}
}
init_cameras();
levelLoaded = 1;
automatic_cam_selector();
update_room_cam();
scan_active = 1;
mouse_mode = 2;
set_commandLine_visible();
object_scanner();
}

If I add freeze_mode to my function as it is, the freeze stops also the current function so that freeze_mode = 0 is never reached.

I havent had a chance to look at your code or test yet, but try putting
the wait(2); after the freeze_mode=0; and see if that helps

Hi EvilSOB,

I tried your suggestion and now there's no problem with the freeze_mode anymore, but I still get the same error 1301.